- Description
- 1 streaming audio file (approximately 53 minutes): digital
- Summary
- Streaming audio file (approximately 53 minutes). [Applause.] Agnes de Mille speaks about her student days at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) including the kind of dance taught at the time; anecdotes about choreographing for the varsity award ceremonies; how she defines living theater; the performer-audience relationship in live theater, in television, and in motion pictures including the direct audience comments in the case of previews; the responsibilities of the live theater audience; American audiences; the influence of the New York arts critics; the effect on the performing arts of the labor unions and their work rules; the intellectual apathy of the American public; the responsibility of students to develop their judgment and discrimination; reads aloud from a work by [Joseph] Conrad; the rewards of artistic appreciation.
- Donor/Sponsor
- National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
- Agnes de Mille Collection.
- Alternative Title
- Dance Audio Archive
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Lecture by Agnes de Mille on the theater and the American student, recorded January 9, 1962 at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.
- The sound quality is good.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Access (note)
- Access only on site at the research libraries of The New York Public Library.
- Funding (note)
- The processing and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.
- Call Number
- *MGZTO 7-2009
- OCLC
- 36936912
- Author
De Mille, Agnes, speaker.
- Title
The theater and the American student/ Agnes de Mille, 1962
- Imprint
1962.
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Event
Recorded at Michigan State University January 9, 1962 East Lansing (Mich.)
- Funding
The processing and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.
- Restricted Access
Access only on site at the research libraries of The New York Public Library.
- Original Version
Original format: one sound reel (approximately 53 minutes); polyester; full-track, 7.5 ips; 7 in.; transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgzto72009_v01f01_sc.
- Local Note
Former call number: *MGZTC 3-2009
Former call number: *MGZT 7-105
- Local Note
Archival original: *MGZTO 7-105; 7 1/2 in per sec.; 7 in. reel; polyester, full track. Relabeled as *MGZTO 7-2009 as of September 12, 2014. Restored and rehoused in 2015 following water damage.
Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-2009; 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 10 in. reel; polyester.
Preservation funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance (NIPAD).
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
Dance appreciation.
- Research Call Number
*MGZTO 7-2009